Cornell faculty members Linda Rayor and John Weiss have been named 2005 winners of the Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Service-Learning Award. The annual award, which comes with a $5,000 purse for each recipient, recognizes the winners' involvement with service-learning projects that actively involve Cornell students in research, teaching and outreach efforts addressing important community-identified policy issues. It is given by Cornell's Public Service Center.
Cornell researchers are partnering with Latin American institutions to explore how to enable impoverished youths to become productive workers, active citizens and nurturing family members. (April 12, 2010)
Stocking Hall will get a new four-story addition and a general facelift, with construction beginning next September, giving the Department of Food Science and the landmark Cornell Dairy Bar new homes. (Sept. 18, 2009)
How can ambulances get emergency services to people in need as efficiently as possible? It's a classic operations research question that three Cornell researchers are tackling in groundbreaking ways. (June 16, 2008)
The committee for the 2002 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local organizations and agencies. Proposals are due by April 12.
Jaffa Panken, a senior history major from Baltimore, Md., was one of 85 students nationwide to receive the 2005 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
John Ashbery, considered one of America's greatest living poets, will give this year's Robert Chasen Poetry Reading on Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m., in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell University. The reading, hosted by the Department of English at Cornell, is free and open to the public. Ashbery is the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College and the author of twenty collections, including Girls on the Run (1999), Your Name Here (2000), and Chinese Whispers (2002). His Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award, the first time a book of poetry was so universally acclaimed. (April 8, 2003)
Laurie A. Robinson, acting director of development at Cornell University, has been appointed director, announced Inge T. Reichenbach, vice president for alumni affairs and development. Robinson is a 1977 graduate of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences.
Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services is another step closer to meeting its annual and capital campaign goals, thanks to a $10,000 contribution from Cornell.